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The Drivers of Citations in Management Science Journals
No full textThe number of citations is becoming an increasingly popular index for measuring the impact of a scholar’s research or the quality of an academic department. One obvious question is: what are the factors that influence the number of citations that a paper receives? This study investigates the number of citations received by papers published in six well-known management science journals. It considers factors that relate to the author(s), the article itself, and the journal. The results show that the strongest factor is the journal itself; but other factors are also significant including the length of the paper, the number of references, the status of the first author’s institution, and the type of paper, especially if it is a review. Overall, this study provides some insights into the determinants of a paper’s impact that may be helpful for particular stakeholders to make important decisions
Designing 21st Century Standard Ware: The Cultural Heritage of Leach and the Potential Applications of Digital Technologies
No full textThis practice-based research investigates the potential applications of digital manufacturing technologies in the design and production of hand-made tableware at the Leach Pottery. The methodology for the research establishes an approach grounded in my previous experience as a maker that is informed by an open, experimental, emergent, and responsive framework based on Naturalistic Inquiry.
A critical contextual review describes the cultural heritage of Leach which, for the purposes of the research, is developed through the Leach Pottery as a significant site, the historical production of the iconic Leach Standard Ware and the contemporary production of Leach Tableware. This is followed by an examination of Potter’s Tools in the Leach production environment, and a review of makers’ digital ceramic practice.
The contextual review is followed by an explication of ‘standards’ presented through visual lineages of Standard Ware and Leach Tableware to define ‘standard’ at a design (macro) level, followed by an examination of how ‘standard’ operates at a making (micro level) level. This chapter presents new knowledge in relation to defining the visual field of Leach Pottery tableware production and its standards of design.
A chapter focussed on practice presents the outcomes and analysis of my engagement with digital manufacturing technologies which resulted in the development of new tools to support Leach Tableware production and the interrogation of Leach forms, in different mediums, which led to the creation of Digital-Analogue Leach forms. The practice culminated in the design and development of new 21st century Standard Ware: a range of 9 forms, called Echo of Leach, that were developed by myself using digital and analogue methods: the designs were realised by myself, the Leach Studio, and a further four makers. The outcomes of the research were presented in a three month exhibition at the Leach Pottery in 2013.
The conclusions of the research draw on the key points raised in the analysis of the practice and relate these to the approaches to making pottery that are highlighted in the cultural heritage of Leach in the contextual review. These are also discussed in relation to ways in which these findings could be taken forward into development of knowledge about Standard Ware, especially in a broader studio pottery context
Between the waves: currents in contemporary feminist thought
No full textWith a continuing focus on liberal feminism, Marxist feminism and essentialism, one would be forgiven for
thinking that feminist theory is unable to break free from the ‘second wave’. This is not the case. This article reviews three books which take on these feminist issues and offer new readings on the questions at the heart of feminism. Each provides clear links to feminism of the past but also connects to present debate and makes
suggestions for future directions for feminism. There is plenty of literature which bemoans the end of feminism and some which triumphantly hails our era as post-feminist: no longer in need of feminist theory. Contrary to such claims, each book tackles the problem of women’s oppression from a different perspective, each presents different solutions and in so doing they demonstrate that feminism is alive and well
A Limited Role for PI(3,4,5)P-3 Regulation in Controlling Skeletal Muscle Mass in Response to Resistance Exercise
No full textBackground: Since activation of the PI3K/(protein kinase B; PKB/akt) pathway has been shown to alter muscle mass and growth, the aim of this study was to determine whether resistance exercise increased insulin like growth factor (IGF) I/ phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling and whether altering PI(3,4,5)P3 metabolism genetically would increase load induced muscle growth. Methodology/Principal Findings: Acute and chronic resistance exercise in wild type and muscle specific PTEN knockout mice were used to address the role of PI(3,4,5)P3 regulation in the development of skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Acute resistance exercise did not increase either IGF-1 receptor phosphorylation or IRS1/2 associated p85. Since insulin/IGF signalling to PI3K was unchanged, we next sought to determine whether inactivation of PTEN played a role in load-induced muscle growth. Muscle specific knockout of PTEN resulted in small but significant increases in heart (PTEN+/+ = 5.00±0.02 mg/g, PTEN-/- = 5.50±0.09 mg/g), and TA (PTEN+/+ = 1.74±0.04 mg/g, PTEN-/- = 1.89 ±0.03) muscle mass, while the GTN, SOL, EDL and PLN remain unchanged. Following ablation, hypertrophy of the PLN, SOL or EDL muscles was similar between PTEN-/- and PTEN+/+ animals. Even though there were some changes in overload-induced PKB and S6K1 phosphorylation, 1 hr following acute resistance exercise there was no difference in the phosphorylation state of S6K1 Thr389 between genotypes. Conclusions/Significance: These data suggest that physiological loading does not lead to the enhanced activation of the PI3K/PKB/mTORC1 axis and that neither PI3K activation nor PTEN, and by extension PI(3,4,5)P3 levels, play a significant role in adult skeletal muscle growth
Whose writing is this?
No full textDigital media are quite unlike the 'mechanical' reproduction media that figure so often in the literature of cultural and media studies. Both the interaction between author and user through the digital medium, and a number of other intrinsic qualities of many digital media lead to novel interpretations of the concepts of "copy" and "authenticity" in the digital world. Digital media re-introduce some aspects of authenticity that were lost through the use of purely mechanical media. Digital media also lead to new conceptions of authenticity and power, related to shifts of control from author to reader and from publisher to author, and a shift from mechanical reproduction to digital re-production. the paper concludes that digital media rsult in a reduction of commonality and shared reading experiences, and a a re-definition of the concept of authenticity in terms of readership rather than authorship
Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Message
No full textThis paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development ofreprogenetic technologies. I suggest that strategic use of notions of the sacred to decontextualise and delimit disagreement fosters this marginalisation. Here conceptions of the sacred a sacralisation afford a means by which pragmatic consensus over regulation may be achieved, through the deployment of a bricolage of dense images associated with cultural loyalties to solidify support or to exclude contradictory elements. Hence an explicit renegoation of the symbolic order structuring salient debates is necessary to disrupt and enrich the entrenched and exclusionary dominant discourse over reprogenetic regulation of infertility treatment and embryo research in the UNited Kingdom, the cultural anthropology of biomedicine and feminist ethnographies of reprogenetics to illustrate these claims
A Doppler broadening positron annihilation technique for the study of defects in bulk samples
No full textA Doppler broadening positron annihilation technique which allows for the study of near surface defects in bulk samples is described. The method is capable of observing changes in the homogeneous bulk defect concentration in a sample acid is also able to characterize spatially localized near-surface defects in bulk materials with a resolution of about 1 mm. The applicability of this method is demonstrated by measurements on a sample of polycrystalline aluminum into which defects have been introduced by mechanical deformation. Isochronal annealing studies have been used to characterize the defect recovery in this material and are compared with results of conventional Doppler broadening measurements.PT: J; CR: BOURASSA RR, 1976, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V6, P1405 BRAUER G, 1987, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI A, V102, P79 CAMPBELL JL, 1977, APPL PHYS, V13, P365 DUNLAP RA, 1988, CAN J PHYS, V66, P476 DUNLAP RA, 1992, NONDESTRUCTIVE COMPU HUTCHINGS MT, 1995, J PHYS IV, V5, P119 LAWTHER DW, 1990, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT, V2, P6239 LAWTHER DW, 1993, KEY ENG MATER, V81, P95 LAWTHER DW, 1993, UNPUB CAN J PHYS MACKENZIE IK, 1967, PHYS REV LETT, V19, P946 MACKENZIE IK, 1970, PHYS LETT A, V33, P279 MACKENZIE IK, 1993, COMMUNICATION MCKEE BTA, 1967, THESIS TALHOUSIE U SCHULTZ PJ, 1981, CAN J PHYS, V59, P325 SMITH FA, 1977, R8894 AERE WAMPLER WR, 1978, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V8, L1; NR: 16; TC: 0; J9: NUCL INSTRUM METH PHYS RES B; PG: 4; GA: TY120Source type: Electronic(1
The Somers mutiny of 1842
No full textThis dissertation presents an analysis of the Somers mutiny of 1842
that goes beyond the simple narratives offered by previous studies of the
cruise. The mutiny is examined within the context of contemporary
American politics and social reform, particularly as they related to naval
affairs. These emphases clarify the rationale behind the cruise of the
Somers, and shed light upon the nature of her crew.
The immediate physical environment of the brig is described in
order to reveal the difficulties in its operation, and the destabilising effect
that this had on both the functional and social worlds of the vessel. The
social environment on board is further defined by examining the daily
progress of the cruise with reference to antebellum naval life and practice.
When so combined, these factors clarify the officers' perception of the
mutiny threat, and go far to explain their actions throughout the crisis.
Finally, the dissertation examines the controversy that arose after
the Somers returned to the United States. In particular, the military
courts convened to investigate the mutiny are subjected to critical analysis
since they are fully part of the events that they purported to explain, and
because their proceedings remain the primary source material for
reconstructing the cruise it is necessary to identify their biases. To
conclude, the societal lessons of the Somers mutiny are explored, and an
alternative reading of the event is posed
Uniaxial Pressure Control of Competing Orders in a High Temperature Superconductor
No full textThis file contains the raw data use in the publication 'Uniaxial Pressure Control of Competing Orders in a High Temperature Superconductor' by H.-H. Kim, S. M. Souliou, M.E. Barber, E. Lefrancois, M. Minola, M. Tortora, R. Heid, N. Nandi, R. A. Borzi, G. Garbarino, A. Bosak, J. Porras, T. Loew, M. König, P.M. Moll, A. P. Mackenzie, B. Keimer, C. W. Hicks and M. Le Tacon.
Source code for the first principle calculations is also provided, alongside with the instruction to use them.
This code was developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology by Rolf Heid.
Any use of the software beyond the context of this publication requires permission of the author
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